It seemed we were trying to mend what historians missed over thousands of years. The out-phase of the Neanderthals by assimilation into homo sapiens draws a parallel line with our attempt to integrate the tribal classes with mainstream society. By the term “tribal”, we used to mean Adivasis. That means aboriginals. In a sense, the term can be rationally interpreted as “predecessor” or the first occupant. The derivation of the mainstream class could be traced to them. Doesn’t that mean the non-tribal segment is only their successors? Is it to the first occupants that we, the successors calling ourselves the mainstream, teach lessons of a good life for integrating with the mainstream? Somewhere there is something wrong! The term tribe is derived from Latin “tribus” which meant “a grou...
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